Tag Archives: Donovan

Another album released in 1965, Song For Swingin’ Survivors was one of the first contributions of English protest Folk. A major influence for Donovan, The War Drags On was covered by Donovan on The Universal Soldier EP, he recorded Softley’s Goldwatch Blues on his debut album, What’s Bin Hid And What’s Bin Did released in […]

As the tragedy of Aleppo unfolds and becomes just another tragedy in a list of tragedies that sees no end and as the puerile political circus continues in the USA, it’s hard to understand why we humans are so hopeless, so unable to find peaceful solutions to conflicts that cause such terrible pain to each […]

Hurdy Gurdy were a Danish power trio with an interesting history as it was their name that inspired the title of the well known Donovan song, Hurdy Gurdy Man. Originally they had formed in the sixties with Mac Macleod, an influential guitarist on the British sixties scene around St Albans who had inspired Donovan and […]